The art of painting, with the lives and characters of above 300 of the most eminent painters : containing a complete treatise of painting, designing, and the use of prints : with reflexions on the works of the most celebrated masters, and of several schools of Europe, as well ancient as modern, being the most perfect work of the kind extant (1754)
Piles, Roger de, 1635-1709, Buckeridge, Bainbrigg, 1668-1733. Essay towards an English school of painting · London : Printed for T. Payne · leaf 318
nent PAINTER S. 295 Painting was very mellow; his touches were not ap-parent; however, they were finifhed. When heintended to give the laft hand to any piece, he rubbedit over with a varnifh which did not dry in two orthree days, and during that time he had leifure tomanage his colours over and… … U THE 296 The LIVES of
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